Digest::base

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The Digest::base
class provide implementations of the methods
addfile
and add_bits
in terms of add
, and of the methods
hexdigest
and b64digest
in terms of digest
.

Digest implementations might want to inherit from this class to get
this implementations of the alternative add and digest methods.
A minimal subclass needs to implement the following methods by itself:

new

clone

add

digest

The arguments and expected behaviour of these methods are described in
Digest.